“There are, throughout, gleams of the will to bear witness and provide counter information: Viktor Klemperer’s daily chronicling of the perversion of language under the Third Reich, an act he described as an ‘SOS’ sent to himself. And, Charlotte Beradt‘s recording of peoples’ dreams in Nazi Berlin in order to leave for the future an intimate ‘seismograph’ of political history, a document of political terror ‘haunting deep into the soul’... all those scraps of testimony which exist and resist and are there if we only choose to see them.”
“Abdullah and the Fireflies: On Reading Survivance des Lucioles.” by Laura Waddington